To store expressed milk in a shared fridge

Just gone back to work for a few days a week (wishing I hadn't but...£) and dd is a total bottle/ formula refuser despite me nearly killing myself trying I'm having to express/ pop out for feeds.

Yesterday and Monday all the expressed milk ended up on the side and off when I went to get it at the end of the day. As it's in an opaque plastic bag I presumed it was a mistake. I just found my lunch time expressed milk which I was about to pass on again on the window sil and have been informed someone has put it there as 'it's disgusting storing bodily fluids in a fridge with food'. She would have had to open the bag to see it was a baby bottle!

Is this one weirdo view or do people really feel like this, others were quite neutral but may have been reluctant to get involved and questioned if I could use the other fridge (used for non-food) to avoid upset.

I'm in a senior position and could get another fridge but it seemed a waste of funds!

Sorry but unless they were prepared to store their lunch alongside chemicals then they are BU to expect you to store your dcs there.

Im pretty sure legally employers have to make.provision for expressing and storing milk so I think your first port of call is HR. Check that they are OK with you using the food fridge and ask them if they will read the email you are planning to send round instructing everyone that you will be using the fridge and they are to leave the milk there.

I would raise hell. Of course YANBU. Expressed milk is like gold. Could someone who has worked while expressing clarify whether this is a discrimination issue? Isn't there legislation in place to ensure expressing mothers have time and space in which to do so during working hours, and shouldn't this extend to the storage of the milk?

You really cannot put expressed milk in a fridge that's used to store hazardous chemicals, and I'm astounded that anyone has suggested it.

If you have the authority, it might be worth actually buying a separate fridge to be used for the storage of breastmilk only. You could then put a lock on it and give copies of the key only to those people who need to store breastmilk- given that one of your colleagues is clearly trying to deliberately make unsafe milk that's intended for a baby, I think it's an entirely justifiable expense.

Peevish, I am fortunate to be in the position where I can create time and space (locked office) and I think I'm the one to implement this. I think I need to be more open and state in a briefing that's what I will be doing so use Gregg's if you don't like it